Public Sector Supervision and Leadership

Catalog description

This course provides students with an overview of the principles of supervision and leadership as they apply to work in the public sector. Particular emphasis is made on supervising, motivating, and developing personnel in public safety organizations, including discussion of civil service, public liability issues, and command as an element of a quasi-military organizational structure. This course covers general supervisory/leadership principles and topics available to all public safety employees in Fire, Police, Emergency Management, and Emergency Medical Service Departments. This course is cross-listed as EMGT 2210 Public Sector Supervision and Leadership and FIRE 2210 Public Sector Supervision and Leadership. Students who have taken the course under the alternative course ID should not take this course.